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Pachacha [2.7K]
3 years ago
12

Elliot has a total of 26 books. He has 12 more fiction books than nonfiction books. Let x represent the number of fiction books

and y represent the number of nonfiction books
Mathematics
1 answer:
Llana [10]3 years ago
5 0
X and y are books
x is fiction
y=nonifiction

x+y=36


x=12+y

12+y+y=26
2y+12=26
minus 12
2y=14
divide 2
y=7


sub
x=12+y
x=12+7
x=19

nonfiction=7
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